Heartless Quotes - Page 5

• Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

  Ivor Novello

  Happiness, Laughter, Blessed

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• How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cuffs, Muffins, Way

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

  Margaret Haddix

  Mother, Hurt, Fear

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

  Marcel Dzama

  Men, Tin, Costumes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 'Hoop Dreams'was an unbelievable struggle. We were trying to raise money in the midst of shooting it, and just explaining to people took a lot of effort. I remember talking to someone who should have gotten it, this person was in Public Television, and they didn't think we had a story, until 'maybe something bad happens to one of the boys.' Besides being somewhat heartless, it was also wrong.

  Gordon Quinn

  Struggle, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years, it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we'll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

  Bette Midler

  Fighting, Race, Years

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• What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

  Joseph Barbera

  Laughter, Real, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

  Martha Beck

  Sex, Laughter, Childhood

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• There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, Should Have

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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• I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

  Peter Ustinov

  Happiness, Music, Laughter

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 3

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• I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

  Franklin Pierce

  War, Way, Unnecessary

  Letter to Jane Pierce, March 3, 1863.

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• If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

  Stephen King

  Love, Heart, Beast

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

  Herman Melville

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.783, Delphi Classics

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• But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs?

  Tucker Carlson

  Dog, Thinking, Ideas

  "Tucker Carlson addresses Vick role". www.espn.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night.

  Donny Osmond

  Sex, Night, Light

  Song: Soldier Of Love

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• A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Destiny, Wife, Fashionable

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• In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Girl, Cousin

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• The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Laughter, Angel

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• We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Later In Life, Hands

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.382, Open Road Media

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• Uncertainty as to our relationship to God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed, and gives way. He can do nothing for God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Running, Fighting, Men

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• Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

  Robert Plant

  Laughter, Trying, Doe

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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